Mainland China underwent significant institutional changes in the 1980s, when most villages transitioned from collectivism to individualism. As one of the exceptions, Yakou Village is called "the last people's commune in China". Conducting a lab-in-field experiment, we compared the social and...

With the great economic and social development achieved in China in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up has come the extensive flow of China’s very large rural labour force between urban and rural areas and among regions, as well as populations of left-behind children and migrant...